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Heteroclinic switching between chimeras
1Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, OX2 6GG, United Kingdom and Department of Mathematics and Centre for Systems Dynamics and Control, University of Exeter, EX4 4QF, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
Functional oscillator networks, such as neuronal networks in the brain, exhibit switching between metastable states involving many oscillators. We give exact results how such global dynamics can arise in paradigmatic phase oscillator networks: Higher-order network interactions give rise to metastable chimeras-localized frequency synchrony patterns-which are joined by heteroclinic connections. Moreover, we illuminate the mechanisms that underly the switching dynamics in these experimentally accessible networks.
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